“New Genetic Technologies and their Impact on Women: A Feminist Perspective” in Gender and Development, p. 114-125, May 2003.

"The Politics of Baby-Making in Modern China: Reproductive Technologies and the “New” Eugenics. Invited chapter for a book, Infertility Around the Globe: New Thinking onChildlessness, Gender, and New Reproductive Technologies, edited by Marcia C. Inhorn and Frank van Balen. Berkeley: UC Press, 2002.

Co-author of “A New View of Women’s Sexual Problems”. Written by the Working Group On A New View of Women’s Sexual Problems. In Special Edition of Women and Therapy, p. 1-9, Vol 24, Numbers 1/2 July 2001 and in A New View of Women’s Sexual Problems, edited by Ellyn Kaschak and Leonore Tiefer, New York: The Haworth Press.

Book Review of Infertility and Patriarchy: The Cultural Politics of Gender and Family Life in Egypt, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania. In Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 510-512, December 1999.

Editor, Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (CAR) Newsletter. CAR is a special committee of the Society for Medical Anthropology, a unit of the American Anthropological Association. This official newsletter is published bi-annually; 1993-4;1995-9.

Presentations

“Social Inequality Pervades: The Implications of Human Cloning and Germ line Therapy for Women and Women’s Health”. Presented at A Conference ‘Behind Many Masks’ Gerald Berreman and Berkeley Anthropology, 1959-2001, Organized by the Kroeber Anthropological Society, and Anthropology Graduate Organization, April 6, 2001.

“The Implications of New Genetic Technologies on Women and Women’s Health: Ten Mis-conceptions”, Presented at a symposium organized by the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective and The Exploratory Initiative on New Human Genetic Technologies, SF, March 2001.

"Honoring Joan Ablon: Professor as Mentor and Mensch", Paper presented on a panel at The American Anthropological Association Meetings, Nov. 2000

Radio, Interviewed for KQED Morning Show on September 1999 (Hospital Merger) and February 2000 (Midwives in Crisis).

Invited discussant for Monica Casper's book, The Making of the Unborn Patient: A Social Anatomy of Fetal Surgery for presentation at Stanford University, Medical Humanities Work Group, October 4, 1999.

Invited guest speaker on KPFA Radio Station. August 24, 1999, Discussed the social and medical ethics of egg donation on "The Living Room"; September 15, 1999, "Impact of Social and Ethical Catholic Directives on Local Hospital Merger"; February 2000. One hour show produced by Judith Campbell, interviewed by Chris Welch.

A Conversation with Anthropologists on "What is Art For?", an exhibit with 100 artists at the Oakland Art Museum. Invited Speaker, March 1999.

"High Tech Reproductive Medicine for Infertile Couples: The Politics of Making Modern Babies", Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Meetings, December 1998.

"The Hen that Can't Lay An Egg: Female Infertility in Modern China", Invited Speaker to Stanford University Eastfest Series. Theme of Sex and Sexuality in Asia. February 1997.

"The Commodification of Health Care and Infertility Treatment: Social and Ethical Implications for Diverse Women in Modern China" paper for the Third World Congress of Bioethics in San Francisco, CA. November 1996.

"The Changing Chinese Health Care System: Implications for Infertile Women" presented at the American Anthropological Association meeting in San Francisco, CA. November 1996.

Conference Organizer and Presenter. "Genetic Testing And You A Critical View," UC Berkeley Institute for Social Change. Fall 1996.

"The Social Significance of Female Infertility" at Stanford University, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, 1996.

"An interview with Lisa Handwerker" by Reyna Cowan. KPFA Radio Station. A half hour interview on China research. February 1995.

"'Are you pregnant yet?': An Analysis of Gender, Reproduction, and Sexuality Among Infertile Women in Contemporary China". UCB Center for Chinese Studies Symposium on "Desire, Sexuality, and the Body in Late Imperial and Modern China”, October 1994.

"Medicalization and Resistance: The Case of Female Infertility in Modern China", Paper presented on the panel, "Women and Biopower: What Constitutes Resistance?" organized by C.H. Browner, American Ethnological Society Meetings, Los Angeles; April 1994.

"International Perspectives: Reports From Abroad", Session chair and presenter at the Fourth Annual Congress of Healthcare Ethics and Ethics Committees, "Designs on Life: Choice, Control, and Responsibility in Genetic Manipulation Conference", co-sponsored by the International Bioethics Institute and the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, April 1994.

"The Hen that Can't Lay An Egg: China's Birth Policy Reexamined", Invited Main Speaker for the Annual Meeting of the Association of American University Women (AAUW), Danville Chapter, April 1994.

"Translating Women's Reproductive Health Research into Policy: What is the Future for Anthropology?", Invited session to the American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington, D.C. Co-organizer and Co-chair; November 1993.

"Popular and Scientific Representations of AIDS in Modern China: Cultural Values, (Mis)Conceptions, and Policy Implications", Paper for American Anthropological Association, D.C.; Nov 1993.

"The Hen That Can't Lay An Egg: Conceptions of Female Infertility in Modern China", Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, New York; June 1993. (Accepted paper but unable to attend)

The Convergence of "Tradition" and "Modernity" on Infertile Female Bodies in Late Twentieth Century People's Republic of China", Paper presented at the Association for Asian Studies Meetings, Los Angeles, CA; March 25-28 1993.

"A Narrative of National Crisis: Overpopulation and Female Bodies in Late Twentieth Century People's Republic of China", Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Meetings, San Francisco, CA; December 2-6, 1992.

"Modernization and (Re)production: The Female Body as the Site of Competing National Desires in the People's Republic of China", presented at the Social Science and Technology Conference, Goteborg, Sweden; August 1992.

"The Infertile Female Body in the Chinese Context", Paper presented to the Reproductive Health Study Group, Berkeley, CA; May 1992.

"Stigmatizing Beliefs: Infertility in the People's Republic of China", Paper presented at the Southwest Anthropological Association Meetings, Berkeley; April 1992.

"Contending Ideologies: Gender, (Re)production, and the State in the People's Republic for China", presented at the Women and Anthropology Conference, Cal State University, Sacramento; March 21-23, 1992.

"Reproduction, Gender, and the State: Infertility in the Chinese Context", Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Meetings, Chicago; November 20‑24, 1991.

"Medical Anthropology and it's Relevance to China", Paper presented at the First Urban Anthropology Conference in Beijing, China; December 1989‑January 1990.

"Gender, Representation and Other: Women in an Anthropological Analysis of Ethnographies on China", Paper presented at West Coast Asian Studies Meetings, University of Seattle, Washington; October 1988.